Ozeline Wise | |
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.jpg) Wise in 1978 | |
| Born | 1903 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | 1988 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Ozeline Pearson Wise (1903 – 1988) was the first African-American woman to be employed in the banking department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a position she held for 20 years.[1][2] She and her sister Satyra Bennett co-founded the Citizens Charitable Health Association and the Cambridge Community Center.[3]
Wise took the civil service exam but was denied a job with the post office because of her gender. She later took a job at the banking department of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the early 1950s.[4]
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- ^ "Research Guides Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard University. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ The Black Women Oral History Project: Cplt.: Hill, Ruth Edmonds: The Black Women Oral History Project. Cplt. Berlin: De Gruyter. 1991. pp. 309–320. ISBN 3-11-097391-X. OCLC 881295859.